Starting this month, we’ll be holding public community meetings regarding Collaboration Infrastructure every other Wednesday at 9am PST (my timezone) for 45 minutes. The inaugural meeting will be 15 November 2017.

Purpose

The purpose of these community calls is to discuss, answer questions, brainstorm, and work together on issues related to NumFOCUS’ Collaboration Infrastructure.

Scope

The exact definition and scope of “Collaboration Infrastructure” isn’t quite set. At a minimum, it includes the tools I (Christie, Projects Director) have deployed as part of the Sustainability Program. Presently this includes this Wiki, our Zulip chat server, etherpad, and Discourse. It may grow to include other tools needed or used by NumFOCUS staff, community members, contributors, or member projects in order to get their NumFOCUS-related work done.

Appropriate Topics

Any topic related to collaboration needs of NumFOCUS staff, community members, contributors, or member projects is appropriate for the Collaboration Infrastructure community call.

For example, all of these topic areas are relevant and appropriate:

questions about how to use any of the existing collaboration tools

suggestions, feature requests, and other proposals related to modifying any of our existing collaboration tools

requests, questions, and proposals related to the documentation of our collaboration tools

proposals requesting NumFOCUS deploy a new collaboration tools or retire an old one

questions and proposals about the way the community meeting itself should work

presentation of best practices or other kinds of lessons learned about collaboration tools (that we’re currently using or that we’re not)

challenges you are having regarding collaboration that you would like to get feedback about from the group